It depends on whether they give priority to the singing or the acting, really. My hope is that they’ll go small in casting, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they went with well known guys for ratings bait.

Nobody. Nobody should play the Fab 4. If I want to watch the Beatles, I look at old tv footage (found easily online). I’ve seen Ringo Starr live once, and Paul McCartney twice in concert. Nothing compares to the real thing.

I always knew this would happen but I was hoping it’d be HBO. I’m a 3rd generation Beatles fan and have loved them my whole life so I’m hoping for the best. Some of the movies like “Nowhere Boy” and “Backbeat” were really well done. Plus this could have so much to cover if they show all of their childhoods, forming the band, Hamburg, original bassist Stu’s story, their manager Brian’s story, the US invasion, the girlfriends and wives, the breakup and what happened to each of them afterwards. As for casting always thought Jim Sturgess would make a great Paul, Henry Ian Cusick an older John or Aaron Johnson playing younger John again, but George and Ringo were always hard for me to fancast. George being my favorite Beatle I always had a hard time thinking of someone to play him. Realy hoping for the best with this.

That was one of the first films I saw Jim in as well as “21”. He really does look a lot like Paul. Just saw too other George fans saying Ben Barnes and I have to agree with them. Ben would make a great George as he really look like him when his hair is long.

I expect the authors to restore the truth which has been rewritten on many points by some people still alive who lived this period, as Mick Jagger and Yoko, for instance. First, the Beatles was the first Punk rock band. By the way, In their early concerts, they were presented as the young savage Beatles, far away from the image of the emblematic pop group that most of the media have retained. They made explode the codes of the rock’n’ roll of the fifties. The way of singing of John Lennon makes him one of the best rock singer and Mick Jagger copied it. This is particularly clear and impressive when listening their versions of american songs of the fifties, as “Bad boy” or “Slow down” released in some US albums, “Dizzy miss Lizzy,” etc.. John was a violent and angry youngman and all the members of the british groups that they met at the time was afraid of him, as Keith Richards, who, by the way left only few lines on the Beatles in his biography. Fourty years later, Mick Jagger even declared that he never loved the Beatles. It is not really elegant, especially if you consider that the Beatles made all of that possible. They were on the first line and they won the war against all the conservatisms and the establishment. This is the Beatles and no one else who gave the possibility to the youth to take the power in the sixties.